Another brainstorm of mine, inspired by Tweed, Spaw, Carol the Sailor and their ilk.

We can save time which we spend searching through all the BS threads very easily. Henceforth, post all BS here in this thread. Soon there will be only one BS thread. We won't have to look for particular threads as this will be the only one and it will contain all the BS we have to offer.

My Gawd!! Why has this not been thought of earlier? It is so obvious!

I swear, sometimes I even amaze myself!

Once again, for those of you who are slow in understanding...hear me, Tweed! Post all BS in this thread from now on!

Pene Azul and Joe Offer will thank me for making their job so much easier! My fellow 'Catters will also thank me when they realize the time my idea will save them! Maybe this will finally get me the coveted "Time/Life Man of the Year"!!

Now that I think of it, this thread is every bit as viable as one that would serve as a repository for all those who share half-remembered bits of some song that might have been about frogs...or maybe it was goobers...anyway, it was sung in a now defunct club that once stood on the corner of Walk and Don't Walk, by a woman/man who might have later been a member of The Oriskany Troopers...or was it The Downtown Chile Stompers...anyway... it was a great song and I wish I could remember more...he/she was a hell of a marimba player...

I object that the brown-shirt management of this site allows, unmolested, this implicit but unmistakable bashing of the transgenderedly challenged. They are NOT all marimba players as you well know and I will not stand idly by while . . . I QUIT

That is a common error, khandu. If you look carefully, you'll notice that Carol is of the clan that puts the C immediately after her name with no space or period. Kim does make use of the space but puts no period after her C and so is possibly a distant cousin.

I love ya, brother, and in taht I would like you to do me a favor. Walk down to the bathroom, open the nedicine cabinet, lokk fir the bottle that says "Khanny, take twice a day" and take one tonight and leave the bottle out where you can find it in the morning....

What, are you nuts? Ahhh, strike that question. I mean there's more to BS than actual bull excretions. There are as many excretions as there are animals, people included. This ain't quite like Spiro Agnew's accute observation when he said "Ahhhh, seen one redwood and you've seen 'em all", is it?

Hell, I am in a tornado! (really!) The danged whistles are blowing everywhere, all my neighbors are in my house (We live on a bottom floor), and the dog, Tinker, is howling at the sirens. This is an interesting evening!

Bufotenine and related 5-hydroxy-indolethylamines are common constituents of venoms of the genera Hyla, Leptodactylus, Rana and Bufo. Bufotenine is not psychedelic in reasonable doses (with larger doses there are dangerous physiological side effects), but the skin of one species, Bufo alvarius, contains 50-160 mg 5-MeO-DMT/g of skin (Daly & Witkop 1971). It's the only Bufo species known to contain a hallucinogenic tryptamine (McKenna & Towers 1984). Most (1984) gives instructions for collecting and drying the venom:

Fresh venom can easily be collected without harm to the toad. Use a flat glass plate or any other smooth, nonporous surface at least 12-inches square. Hold the toad in front of the plate, which is fixed in a vertical position. In this manner, the venom can be collected on the glass plate, free of dirt and liquid released when the toad is handled. When you are ready to begin, hold the toad firmly with one hand and, with the thumb and forefinger of your other hand, squeeze near the base of the gland until the venom squirts out of the pores and onto the glass plate. Use this method to systematically collect the venom from each of the toad's granular glands: those on the forearm, those on the tibia and femur of the hind leg, and, of course, the parotoids on the neck. Each gland can be squeezed a second time for an additional yield of venom if you allow the toad a one-hour rest period. After this the glands are empty and require four to to six weeks for regeneration. The venom is viscous and milky-white in color when first squeezed from the glands. It begins to dry within minutes and acquires the color and texture of rubber cement. Scrape the venom from the glass plate, dry it thoroughly, and store it in an airtight container until you are ready to smoke it.

Well, it don't matter if it was Spiro T. or Kenny G. Fact of the matter is that Donnie Rumseld topped 'em all with his "Henny Penny" speech in which he said, and I quote, "Seen one vase an' you seen 'em all!"

NONONO! Bobertz! Kenny G said "That khandu! What a brilliant fellow he is!" The reason I remember him saying that is because it is the only decent sound the fellow ever produced! Incidentally, the "vase" quote, which Rumsfield used, was also originally coined by Harry Lee Wigley.

michaelr...snort 'em, smoke 'em, lick 'em...it all has the same wonderously grand effect!

And besides, everybody here is some kinda wierdo...give me Starbucks and my SUV any day. Wait! This is the 20th response, unless some SOB sneaks in ahead of me, and nobody has said anything hateful or rude yet!!! This is my chance...I hate everybody who hates anybody else or is rude to them just for being what they are or for saying things about somebody else that doesn't agree with the opinions of the party of the first part! Does that cover it? If not, the hell with it.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT(Just in case somebody's actually dumb enough to try it)

Actually, smoking is the only safe way to do toad venom. The psycoactive ingredient is 5-MeO-DMT not Bufotenine. Bufotenine is just plain poisonous. When smoking the dried venom, the Bufotenine is burned away but the 5-MeO-DMT is not. The high is supposedly very intense but very short-lived (5 minutes).

Khandu, I am glad you have drawn attention to the absolutely outrageous treatment accorded to the legendary Harry Lee Wigley by low-minded, prejudiced know-nothings; by scummy, impertinent, opinionated fools; by incontinent, lecherous poseurs; by people like Clinton Hammond...

Harry Lee Wigley's greatness is something I never tire of recognizing and acclaiming.

And now, may I say just two words? Two little words that can change an empty life and fill it with meaning. Two simple little words that anyone can say, but oh how powerful they are...

(drum roll....)

* * * William Shitner!!! * * *

Nothing more really needs to be said after that...but I'm sure something will be.

Khandu, the essence of BS is to leave a foul essence and so far this thread is really a winnerin that department!

I would listen to Allan C however as no one has more experience on BS even if by accident as he once started a BS thread about killing the thread which no one would kill of course and it went on ad infinitum. A remainder of it still exists but it's once glorious times of damn near 500 posts have been halved and shut down for good.

You might also want to talk with Art Thieme who, in a moment of passion and digust with the crop of threads that was running at the time, dared to ask, What Brand of Condoms Do Mudcatters Use? Several hundred posts later, and unwilling to die, the thread marched on while poor Art checked in at the NYCFFTS.

Ooohhhhhh!!! Posthaste! Oooohhhh, aren't we special! We can use fancy words like posthaste! Well, you should see the fancy words Little Hawk can use when he wants to. Check this one out; "calumny". Yup. That's one of his favorites. That, and pusillanimous. He even started a whole thread for just that one word, pusillanimous. Top that why don't you?

GOD...the BS!! It flows like gray water...it oozeth from the pores of Mudcat like Bufo juice...It responds to probing like a Polka Band on acid... Khandu, you sick fiend what have you done? This is like a black hole sucking BS from all over the galaxy into it.

Something should be done...the Renegade Lunatic must be stopped...the BS just keeps pouring in....awful,awful...

LH, you disappoint me. Here you had just managed to achieve a true Transcendent Mudcat Moment by posting a glorious golden droplet of quintessential karmic truth...and then you went and spoiled it all by saying something stupid like "a typo!" (apologies to Nancy Sinatra fans--both of you).

Can we get back to the meds issue? Your Highness ( just how high is he,anyway?)....I went out and did a quick poll and your subjects said, to a man, woman and toad "Take the meds.....do it now.....and keep your hands in clear sight at all times".

Yanno, my Great Uncle Entwhistle got just like this before we had to put him a home for the Terminally Bewildered.....sad,isn't it?

Well, yeah, I can see your point, Mark. It was a pretty transcendent moment, wasn't it? I could hardly believe it when I opened the thread and saw it. Amazing how these things just seem to fall in place, regardless of our well-laid plans. :-)

(You see, what worries me is that I might get in trouble with the Board of the WSSBA, for dissing Shatner. You may be aware that Spaw is persona non grata there for having done so repeatedly.)

Hey! How come Carol the Sailor, spaw and Tweed get to have an ilk? Favouritism? And do they each have their own ilk or do they have to share? A least if they share it's not quite as bad, but if they each have their own ilk then I'm really upset.

I don't know, MMario. I think you're probably of our "ilk" also. khandu probably didn't include you because he couldn't remember how to spell your name. I think LH is one of us too, but khandu is jealous of him because LH knows more fancy words than he does.